Hearing Disorders

Hearing Services

  • Diagnostic Audiological Testing -- Comprehensive hearing testing designed to determine the degree and type of hearing loss. This includes pure tone air and bone conduction testing, speech reception and recognition testing, and other specialized tests depending on your hearing.
  • Tympanometry: presence of normal tympanogram suggests normal middle ear function
  • Acoustic reflex: presence of acoustic reflex responses at or below 95 dB HL indicates normal inner hair cell function
  • Otoacoustic emissions (OAEs): The presence of otoacoustic emissions suggests normal outer hair cell function, which in turn correlates to normal hearing
  • Hearing aids: discussion of amplification benefits based on patients hearing loss. Hearing aids role on the treatment of hearing loss